Quotes About Contentment

Everyone says I should really savour the last year, play as much as possible, really soak everything in. I'd most like to sit on the bench, or, even better, in the stands.

I think I'm a happy man, and I'm a blessed man. I have been able to adjust to any situation, whatever it was, in my life.

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

Whatever things a man gives up, By those he cannot suffer pain.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

No man can lose what he never had.

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.

A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical.

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.